Sentence examples for difficult leaders from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama has shown willingness, especially early in his presidency, to shake hands with other difficult leaders.

He has played an important troubleshooting role for the Obama administration in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where, observers say, he has deftly handled difficult leaders.

It may bode well for this nascent field that even at a time when raising money is extremely difficult, leaders of some of the medical technology start-up firms represented at the conference said they were managing to attract lots of interest.

Since coming to power with the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997, President Kabila has been a suspicious and difficult leader to deal with, inside and outside Congo, officials from the United Nations and numerous governments including the United States have found.

People will follow even the most difficult leader, provided they trust him or her, so a board may be well served by tempering its conversations about leadership and culture.

In Iraq, and later in Afghanistan, Mr. Crocker managed to build trust with difficult political leaders with precarious holds on power.

The well-demonstrated nexus between nationalism and democracy makes it difficult for leaders whose position rests on serving their people's interests to also embrace Washington's priorities.

But creating the right business is difficult, firm leaders and industry experts say, particularly for lawyers not used to running a business.

In fact, as Machiavelli observes, it is very difficult for leaders to have real friends or to maintain those friendships that pre-exist their coming to office.

Hezbollah, in particular, has broad public support in Lebanon, so any American-led campaign that sought to rein it in would be difficult for leaders there to support.

This is a non-starter given China's power of veto, but the very idea infuriated China.Turkey's cultural, religious and ethnic links with Xinjiang make it difficult for leaders there to keep quiet.